Treaters band together to fight back

E NVIRONMENTAL conscious- b ness is becoming environmental paranoia, a runaway overreaction that could close markets for treated wood products, warned speakers at the recent wood preserving association's joint conference.

Business must turn the tide of over zealous preservationists and the media was the message of the annual meetings of the Southern Pressure Treaters Association, American

Story at a Glance

Five associations meet to discuss various threats to treated products... industry must fight inaccurate media and public opinions.

Wood Preservers Bureau, American Wood Preservers Institute, Society of American Wood Preservers and National Timber Piling Council Nov. 8-10 in New Orleans, La.

"The treating industry has grown up and we need to step outside the treating plant," urged William Crossman, Atlantic Wood Industries.

John Hall, AWPI, reported at the communications committee meeting on increasing attacks on treated products by the press. Weyerhaeuser's John Cashmore noted his company received more than 200

199O Officers

American Wood Preservers Bureau

OfJicers/Directors: Clif Jones Jr., chairman; Tim Bean, vice chairmanl Eric Yeadon. presidentl Donn Keefe, vice president; Byong I. Min, v.p./secretary; Bette Verry, treasurer.

Executive Committee : Clif Jones Jr., Tim Bean, William B. Cox Jr., Rae Ehlen, lan Stalker.

Board oJ' Governors: William B. Cox Jr., Clif Jones Jr., Howard Powell, James L. Respess III, Joe Daniel, Buddy Perry, Glen Bracewell, Jack Smith.

Board ef Review; Gerald Prange.

Ar,nerican Wood ' Preservers Institute

OJficers: James R. Batchelder, chairman, Theodore A. Clay, vice chairmanl James Respess, treas.t G. Howard Collingwood, past chairman; John F. Hall, pres.; M. Agnes Osborne, sec.

Executive Committee: Allred X. Baxter, Rae R. Ehlen, Robert O. Hawes.

Committee Chairmen/Vice Chairmen (respectively): Jeffery H. Bull and Conrad Kempton, regulatory affairs; B. Corry McF'arland and Robert O. Hawes, legislative relations; Jack Emmert and John Cashmore, communications; Alfred X. Baxter III, political action.

Southern Pressure Treaters Association phone calls, many vicious, following a particularly damaging piece in the Chicago Tribune.

O.ffice rs/Di reclors; David Castlebqrry, pres.; Dave Bryce, lst v.p.; Karl Boatright, 2nd v.p.; Ray Bobo, treas.; Paul Castle, sec.t Charline Muller, Clyde Norton, Auston Hancock, Art Stebbins, Jim Standish, Jack Kennedy, David Webb, directors.

SAWP's George Eliades concurred, explaining he recently spent an hour on the phone calming a panicstricken woman who feared her child was being "poisoned" by her deck.

Patricia Hamilton, AWPI, spoke on Earth Day '90, a global environmental celebration. She said it was too important to be ignored, encouraging industry to become involved, especially at the local level, in delivering facts.

"Eco-terrorists" battling to close timberlands was addressed by David Hancock, president of Hancock Lumber Co., chairman of the National Forest Products Association and vice chairman of the American F'orest Resource Alliance. "lt's not a Northwest issue or a big company issue," he explained. "Those who control the natural resources of a country, control the social fiber of that nation."

"lt's time to start filing our own lawsuits and holding responsible preservationist individuals as well as their organizations," Hancock added.

Lawrence S. Ebner, McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, warned wood preservers of potential lawsuits. He pointed to the industry's vulnerability due to its nature, public ignorance, public anxiety and advantages of the plaintiffs.

"Leaving the authorship of public policy to activists is irresponsible," noted Rafael D. Pagan Jr., Pagan [nternational. He said business can prove the validity of its intentions only through "a new spirit of openness and full participation."

Combining the annual meetings of the treating associations is a first step. Echoed Howard Collingwood, AlliedSignal, Inc.: "lt's much more impressive when we speak in unison."

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Revised Millwork Standards Due

The Wood Moulding & Millwork Producers Association is revising major industry standards to include updated technical information and additional product offerings.

WMMPA is updating four standards (WM l-79-hinged interior wood door jambs; WM 2-82-vinyl wrapped interior moulding & mill- work; WM 3-79-exterior wood door framesl WM 5-81-standard certified non-structural laminated or finger jointed wood) and working with the American Wood Preservers Association and National Wood Window & Door Association to develop an industry-wide non-pressure treating standard.

T0AST|llG New Year at Sacramento, Ca.

Wholesalers' Annual Luncheon, held Dec. 1, (see other pictures) were Ill John Botlini, Steve Little. [2] Rick Houk. Dick Jackson (3] Les LeGaux, Mark Miller, Gordy Martin [4] Ralph Wallen , Ron Lewman, Hank Feenstra. (51 Ron Robbins, Bill Elmore, Les Doddington. (61 Claudia Jennings, Yolanda Waters (71

Steve Hagen, Til Johnson. [8] Ken Womack, Don Getts, Bob Biggs. [9] Carl Moran, Earl Blerle. ll0) Steve Rush, Ted Zaragosa. llll Ed Gale, George Poulos, Todd Lund. ll2l Deanna Scott, Alice Winholtz. (l3l Steve Bertsch, Bick Fichter Il4l Dick Smallridge, Robert West. (15) Davrd Probst, Pat Zan, Dennis D'Amato, Jim Waterman. (l6l Mike

Smith, Enita Nordeck llTl Gary Palmer ll Sl Craig Triebwasser, Ken Hopper. {l9l Rod Gasser, Karl Drexel. 120l Lloyd Gabbert, Terry Kuehl, Mark Denner. [2]) Jim Edwards (221 John Snead, Kyle Keaton. l23l Bob Brass, Bobert Haas. (241 Jeff Squires {251 Dan Rue. [28] Holmes Pooser, Bill Courtwright.

SlCRAilEllT0, Ca., area lumber industry people (also see other pictures) included lll El Louise Waldron, Gary Hartmann. l2l Ralph Heath, Chris Cornett. l3l Jerry & Myrtle

Wilcox, Jim Haas. l4l Lyle Thompson, Nick

Elardo. l5l Darci Beumel, Sid Johnson. 16l

Jack Mills, Jerry Ensworth, Laura Cornett. l7l Earl Moore, Fred Turkheimer, John Maple, Perry Adcox. l8l Taylor Hubbard, Chris

Pooser. l9l Sue 0'Dell, Jenifer Swink, Ann White, Betty Kavooras. ll0l Je{f Tornai, Dan

Nabors, Ben Leany, Gene Pietila. llll Art & Bev Gutzeit, Ted Hewitt. (l2l Bob Tennant, Glen Breedlove, Dale Fleshman. ll3l Tom Von

Moos, Patrick Custer, Larry Barker. ll4l Eric Shelby, Ruth Kesich, Tanya Niskromoni, Pete Hill. llSl Joe Lumadue, Bud & Kathy

Perkins. ll6l Gordon Roby, Mark Kable. [l7l

Miki Mikonis, Bill Riedlinger. ll Sl John Diederich, John Ferguson. [9] Mark Maiors, Don Cherovsky.

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